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  • Image:Antoine Watteau 024.jpg|Die französische Komödie (1718). ... Image:Antoine Watteau 060.jpg|Les Charmes de la vie (1718) ...
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  • by James Gregory in Optica Promota. In 1718 he discovered the proper motion ... of Some of the Principal Fixed Stars (1718). Reprinted in R.G. Aitken ...
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  • History of Carolina originally published in 1718, Lawson wrote about the Tuscarora ... and vices than these people do (Lawson 1718). However, the arrival ...
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  • William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province of Pennsylvania, the British North American colony that became the U.S ...
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  • Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was an English philosopher and bishop of Peterborough from 1691, the son of a citizen of London. He was born ...
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  • Edward Teach (c. 1680Perry, 14. – November 22, 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate in the Caribbean Sea and western ...
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  • In 1718, with the Hamburg Opera defunct, he left Hamburg to seek other employment, going to Thuringia and then Stuttgart. From this period, only ...
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  • Image:WatteauPierrot.jpg|Pierrot by Antoine Watteau, ca 1718 Commedia dell'arte peformers, Antoine Watteau, 1718 ...
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  • * Nazarenus, or Jewish, Gentile and Mahometan Christianity (1718) * The Probability of the Speedy and Final Destruction of the Pope (1718) ...
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  • of St. Thomas in 1671, St. Jan (today St. John) in 1718, and bought St. Croix from France in 1733. All of the islands' economies were based primarily ...
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  • Jasminum grandiflorum. Phytochemistry 68(13): 1718-1721. Jasmine|144829510|Jasminum_molle|140063513|Absolute_(substance)|128511567 ...
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  • In 1718, Lady Mary Wortley Montague reported that the Turks have a habit of deliberately inoculating themselves with fluid taken from mild cases ...
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  • and Holland to uphold the Treaty of Utrecht. In 1718 Austria joined and it was expanded to the Quadruple Alliance against Spain to maintain the peace ...
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  • became a Fellow of the Royal Society and, in 1718, joined in the establishment of the Society of Antiquaries, acting for nine years as its secretary ...
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  • step-son, the Earl, was openly hostile to him. In 1718, Addison was forced to resign as secretary of state because of his poor health, but remained an ...
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  • singers on solemn occasions. These include Esther (1718); Athalia (1733); Saul (1739); Israel in Egypt (1739); Messiah (1742); Samson (1743); Judas Maccabaeus ...
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  • * The Uprooted Pine (Nebiki no Kadomatsu) (1718) * The Love Suicides at Amijima (Shinjūten no Amijima 心中天網島) (1720) * The Woman-Killer ...
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  • |Prince George William of Wales||13 November 1717||17 February 1718 ... of Trinity College, Dublin between 1715 and 1718. *In 1734 George II ...
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  • [[Image:531px-Voltaire.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Voltaire in 1718. Portrait ... he stayed for about a year from 1717 to 1718. There he completed his first ...
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  • From 1716 to 1718, he published a scientific periodical entitled Daedalus ... to his brother-in-law Erik Benzelius in 1718. Around 1730, he had changed ...
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  • of Lord Macclesfield (Chief Justice, 1710-1718) who introduced him to Joseph Addison, described by Mandeville as "a parson in a tye-wig ...
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  • of surgery, receiving his degree in 1717. In 1718, Quesnay was accepted into the community of surgeons of Paris. In 1723, he became royal surgeon ...
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  • were issued, the last and best being that of 1718. His younger brother, Dr. John Clarke, dean of Sarum, translated it into English in 1723. ...
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  • died in 1714, leaving Gravina his heir, and in 1718 Gravina also died. Metastasio inherited a fortune of 15,000 scudi. At a meeting of the Arcadian ...
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  • ; Manchu: Hiyoošungga Fulehun Eldembuhe Hūwanghu) (d. 1718) from the Borjigit clan, made empress in 1654 #Concubine from the Tunggiya clan ...
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  • son of William Talbot, then bishop of Oxford. In 1718 he was ordained deacon and priest, and on the recommendation of Talbot and Clarke, was nominated ...
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  • Song’s main disciple, Kwon Sangha, wrote his own colophon in 1718, about a set of four ink paintings (flowers, grasses, fish, and bamboo) that ...
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  • or Jewish, Gentile and Mahometan Christianity (1718). The existence and origin of this source continues to be debated by scholars. ...
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  • wishes of Aurangzeb. Durgadas died at Rampura in 1718, his funeral rites performed according to his wishes on the banks of Shipra River. The rulers ...
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  • Brittany. His father, René de Chateaubriand (1718-86), was a former sea captain turned ship owner. His mother was Apolline de Bedée. Chateaubriand& ...
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  • # Seaton Delaval Hall, begun in 1718. Work in progress on each of these ... Built between 1718 and 1728 for Admiral George Delaval, it replaced ...
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  • by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, 1717-1718. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 0-393-04758-X * Johnson, Timothy D. Winfield ...
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  • 1711 and 1774 and the Peloponnesus peninsula in 1718, the following century saw further losses starting with Greece in 1829, then by successive Balkan ...
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  • 1, Från forntid till frihetstid : 800-1718. (Stockholm : Bonnier Alba ... The period in Swedish history between 1630 and 1718 is known as the ...
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  • Founded in 1718 by the French Mississippi Company, in 1763, the French colony was ceded to the Spanish and remained under Spanish control for ...
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  • by Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey, Jr., 1714-1718. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0313329722 *Ward, Thomas. "Cornel West y ...
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  • jpg|thumb|left|250 px|Original building, 1718–1782]] Yale was founded ... to Saybrook, and then Wethersfield. In 1718, the college moved to New ...
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  • Despite his frequent travels from 1718, the Ospedale paid him 2 sequins ... In 1717 or 1718, Vivaldi was offered a prestigious new position as ...
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  • the city for two years, destroying a Chinese army in 1718. Lhasa was not retaken until 1720. Overall speaking, the 8 Banner Army was already in ...
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  • of Russia by Czar Peter the Great in 1718. One result of that tax was the institution of a census in order to provide a basis for financial calculations ...
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  • a swift response from Emperor Kangxi in 1718, but his military expedition was annihilated by the Dzungars not far from Lhasa.Hugh E. Richardson ...
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  • Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth century until its declaration of independence in 1821. After capturing Constantinople ...
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  • The bank became the Banque Royale ("Royal Bank") in 1718, meaning the notes were guaranteed by the king. The Company absorbed the Compagnie ...
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  • Newton followed John Glas and Robert Sandeman (1718-1771), extreme Calvinists who scorned faith and taught that God saved or condemned a person solely ...
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  • Minor sometime in the seventeenth century. In 1718, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, reported that ...
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  • Bourbon (Réunion, 1664), Île de France (Mauritius, 1718), and the Seychelles (1756). ==Colonial conflict with Britain== In the mid-eighteenth ...
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  • Treaty of Passarowitz with Austria on July 21, 1718. Among its provisions was the refusal of the Turks to extradite the exiled Hungarians. Two years ...
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  • Worlton. 1979. Journal of Chemical Physics 71: 1718-1721. * [http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/15.html Phosphorus.] Chemistry Division, Los Alamos ...
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  • called "The Puckle Gun" on May 15, 1718. It was a design for a 1 inch (in.) (25.4 mm) caliber, flintlock revolver cannon able to fire 9 rounds ...
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  • The next visit was by Daniel Beekman, who described it in his 1718 book, A Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo, in the East Indies. ...
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